My First Real Cake!

I made my first REAL cake today! It wasn't a total disaster. It's not incredible, but not too shabby for my first whack at it! I also made a gumpaste pink elephant. Well.. The body for it. I gotta get more colors to finish it off. I HAD to use chocolate icing because thats all the store had and I wasn't ready to make my own yet. But now I see why everyone uses butter cream